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[–] 61 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Why is everything to do with this story completely unsurprising.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Because we've all come to accept that Elon Musk doesn't know how to run a social media site?

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    He knows how to run a social media site into the ground...

    Which is probably the whole point. Make it seem like the site is failing because of mismanagement, and not that its failure was intended right from the start with a leveraged buyout saddling the business with an untenable $13bn of debt.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    Musk is a proponent of near-absolute free speech

    Anything goes, so long as it doesn't hurt his feelings personally

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (3 children)

    People are also not allowed to say the word "cisgender” over there

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    I would claim actual free speech absolutists don't exist.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago*

    You're probably since those that preach about free speech are politically driven, hence biased to protect their stance. Rest of us have realized speech isn't free of consequence and the last third just doesn't give a fuck.

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    [–] 46 points 3 years ago (18 children)

    The best anyone can do right now is to migrate off of Twitter entirely. As long as Musk is in charge (or in charge through his puppet CEOs) the site will be a cesspool of toxicity and hate. I'm honestly not sure why reputable people are still using the site... guess the view and media exposure are better than doing the right thing and leaving?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (13 children)

    Anyone who is still on Twitter has, in my opinion, fewer issues with being a corporate puppet and being associated with all the hatred there than they have with losing views.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    I have (had?) plenty of friends on Twitter who loudly proudly boycotted the Harry Potter game due to JKR's comments about trans people.

    But they’ve stayed on Twitter despite its horrible owner and how he runs things.

    I’m willing to give a pass to creators who make a living off their online audience. If the audience went off Twitter, so would they.

    Everyone else, though? I don’t ever care to hear about what they're boycotting again if they can’t pull themselves off Twitter.

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    [–] 31 points 3 years ago* (6 children)

    "TikTok copycat"

    You know, way way back in the pre-Elon days, they had another one. I think it was called Vine?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I still don't understand why they killed it. Must've been a real money sink.

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    Elon wanted a worse version of 4chan, Elon gets a worse version of 4chan...

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    [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    The fediverse is looking like the objective best alternative, more so day by day.

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago (77 children)

    All social media is filled with animal cruelty.
    There's so many pictures and videos of cut up animal corpses with people going "yum" in the comments..

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago (51 children)

    I don't get how I never see that on regular Twitter.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    The content moderation is more active I guess. People post stuff like that all the time on Facebook and Instagram too. Not sure if they have an algorithm or whatever to trigger removal but a good amount are still manually removed by workers, some who quit because of the psychological repercussions

    https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (12 children)

    Yes there's no difference between a picture of a steak and fries on a plate, and a kitten being tortured then burned alive. Absolutely the same thing.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    Folks, there is important, valid discussion to be had about meat eating both from ethical an environmental perspectives. I'm not sure that !Technology is the place to have that discussion, however.

    More importantly, this thread was not the way to discuss these issues, particularly on Beehaw. The behavior in this thread was not nice, and is not the way that these types (or any type) of discussion should be conducted.

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    [+] 11 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (5 children)
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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I don't use Tiktok but I gather that this is a big problem over there as well, so it sounds like Twitter is working just as well as the site it's riffing off.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Many reported being alarmed by a stream of graphic videos they encountered while scrolling through the feed, including videos showing gun violence, police brutality, physical altercations and vaccine misinformation.

    So it's working as intended?

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